Academic Skills for Success in Scholarly Research

In these sections, you will find tips on how to do scholarly research in the best, most efficient way. For the greatest understanding, we suggest that you go through the following pages in order. At the end, you should have a much better understanding of what information is, how it is arranged, and how to find what you need.

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Here is the arrangement and structure of this course. If you get "lost" somewhere, you can always look at the navigation bar on the left side of the page and click on Academic Skills for Success in Scholarly Research. That will bring you back to this page.

Basic Overview
Types of Information
What is Information & How It Is Made
The Publication Process
Scholarly Publication Process
Where the Information Resides
Types of Publication
A Short History of the Internet: A Digression
Places to Find Information
What is a Library?
How to Find Information
Browsing
Professional Research Guides
Traditional Bibliographic Tools
Full-Text and Search Engines
Comparing Full-Text Searching with Traditional Library Tools
Indexes and Full-Text
Keeping Current
Evaluating Information
Putting It All Together
Final Comments

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